writing
noteworthy
Winner of the 2023-2024 John Mackay Shaw Academy of American Poets Award at Florida State University (April 2024)
Chapbook manuscript Mirth, Bliss, Icing was listed as a finalist for the 2023 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Contest (August 2023), 2023 Wolfson Press Chapbook Contest (June 2023) and the 2022-2023 Bauteau Press BOOM Chapbook Contest (January 2023). Mirth, Bliss, Icing was also named a semifinalist for the 2023 Two Sylvias Chapbook Prize.
Longlisted for the Palette Poetry Love and Eros Prize (January 2023)
Served as dialogue writer for the indie game My Personal Hilopet (March 2022)
online
"Home Viticulture" and "The Bat" | Blackbird
The Paris Review Redux Newsletter, September 24, 2023
The Paris Review Making of a Poem: Olivia Sokolowski on "Lover of Cars" | October 10, 2023
"As Long As I'm Not Left Alone" | Prelude
"Ode on Wisteria, Crushes & Beginners' Italian" | Peach Mag
"Almonds" | Tupelo Quarterly
in print
"Lover of Cars" | The Paris Review No. 245
"Ode to Pairs" | Bellevue Literary Review Issue 45
"My Calf" | Cherry Tree Issue 9
"New Year's Eve, Dark Restaurant, with Spoon on Nose" | Phi Kappa Phi Forum
"On Anise" | PRISM Fall 2022
"So you want to make The Florida Opera..." & "The Part of Swan Lake That's Stuck in My Head But I Can't Find" | Sugar House Review #25
"Pont des Arts" & "A Wind Too Good To Be the Wind I Know" | Lake Effect 26
"Ode to Plácido Domingo on Jeopardy!" | Gulf Coast 34.2
"On Being Mean" | Grub Street Literary Magazine 71
"In Which I Am a Shapeshifter" | Palaver Spring 2019
"How to Eat a Crawfish" | Nelle Issue 2